Method of and apparatus for waving hair



1,637 605 2 1927' M. CLEMENCE METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR WAVING HAIR Filed Oct; 50. 1926 .myz.

BY gm? 676/776/766 A TTORNE Y Pa-a... A... 2,1921;

"UNITED STA ES PATENT OFFICE-.- ,MAGNIEHIC'IEMENCE, or corrn vrmn, nurses. I

Application filed ember 30, 19a. Serial No. 145,190.

- y'invention relates to a method of and tended through the slit in the lip on one 66 apparatus. for waving hair. 7 of'the cores,-and the lock of hair with the nder ordinary methods of imparting strand last mentioned is wound back and what is commonly termed a permanent forth in reverse curves over the pair of v 5 wave to hair, it is customary to coil the cores. When the lock of hair is wound on locks of hair individually on cores, ap'plytheecores as described. the second strand of v60 ing fiannels to the hair and then heating the string ,or cord is wrapped about the hair the hair in a tube to impart semi-perma-. and its end tied to the end of the first strand nenc to the coil. which has followed the lock of hair in its While I follow the former method in its windings aboutthe core. to securely attach more general aspects, it is-the object of my the hair to the cores. 65 invention to impart to the locks of hair a With the hair tied to the cores as dereverse curve as distinguished from the scribed, the ordinary flannel is. applied to a coil, and in accomplishing this object I emthe'hair and the cores with the hair thereon ploy a pair of cores upon which the hair extended into the ordinary heating tube inis wound back and forth and to which the dicated at 11, and heat applied as in the 70- hair is held securely during the waving and ordinary process of Waving. heating operations, so that when the cores After the hair has been heated to the are removed the locks of hair will remain I proper temperature and for a sufiicient in the reversely curved or waved formation. l ng h of time, the heat is turned off, the

In the accompanying drawin s illustratcores removed from the tube, the strings 7B ing various steps of th tho i untlediand the cores removed from the hair, Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a pair of leaving the hair in waves as illustrated in cores and a lock of hair, showing the flexible F g- W n e h ir is c mbed theW ve $5 tie member whereby the hair is attached to is retained but spread, as shown in Fig. 6.

the core. It is apparent that by my method and i Fig. 2 is a similar vie showing a lo k with the apparatus described and illustrated of hair partially applied to the cores, in the accompanying drawings, I am able Fig. 3 1s a perspective view of the cores, to provide an actual wave in the hair as showing the lock of hair wound thereon and .gh g ished from merely coiling, and that tied thereto. the wave is set to constitute J. relatively Fig. 4 is a similar view of the opposite permanent formation. side of the cores. What I claim and desire to secure by Let Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a lock ters Patent is 35 of hair after the waving operation has been 1. The method of waving hair compris completed. A ing coiling the hair in reverse curves on Fig. 6 is a view of the hair after a comb separate cores, tying the hair to the cores, has been passed through it. wrapping the hair on the cores. heating the Referring more in detail t th dr hair, and removingthe wrapping and cores 40 ings y from the hair. 1

1 and 2 designate a pair of cores which 2. The method of waving hair com risindividually correspond to the cores coming attaching a double string to the hair, monly employed for waving hair, each havcoiling the hair and one of the strings in ing a lip 3 at one end provided with a slit reverse curves on a pair of cores, wrapping 45 4 and having lateral ears 5-pivotally conthe other string about the hair and cores,

nected by a pin 6 to hingedly connect the tying the ends of the strings, wrapping the cores at one end. 7 designates a lock of hair, heating the hair. and removing the hair and 8 a cord or string attached to the wrapping, cores and the string from the lock of hair at the point where the wave is hair. 7

50 to start, the string ortcord being preferably '3. Apparatus for waving hair COIIIPIiSiIlg loo tied at its center to the hair and exa pair of cores, hinged at one end, a heat ten ed in separate strands 9 and 10. ing tube adapted to receive the cores and When the string or cord is tied to the the hair wrapped thereon, and a double hair as described, one of the strands is exstrand string attached to the hair, with one a I memoe Of the strands wound on the cores withthe with one of the strands'atteched to one of hair and the other wound about the hair the cores and wound on the cores with the w on the cores. hair, the other strand of the string wound 4. Apparatus for waving hair comprising about the hair on the cores, and the two 5 a pair of cores having hinge connection at nds f he String being tied to hold the one end, a heating tube adapted t r i Cores together and the halr 0n the cores..

the cores and the hair wrapped thereon, a 111 testlmonyhwhel'eof I afiX my ig a u double strand string attached to the heir, MAGNIEN CLENCE. 

